XML parsing from URL

[mightyn00b]

Your url_to_parse holds the contents of the xml file, and .parse() expects a path or an open file.
You should either pass the response object to .parse() (and not the data read from it), or use .fromstring() instead.

Despite this, I am running into a conundrum:

Please enter an XML URL to parse: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/lamidotijjo/Documents/PythonProjects/parsexml.py", line 48, in <module>
tree = ET.parse(url)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1196, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 586, in parse
source = open(source, "rb")
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/comments_42.xml'

Here is the modified code:

import urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.error
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

list_of_ints = []
url = input('Please enter an XML URL to parse: ')
# url_to_open = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()

tree = ET.parse(url)
root = tree.getroot()
lst = root.findall('comment')
for item in lst:
   print(item.find('count'))